Language & Gender

Question 1

Stereotype

Answer 1

Are formed through our observations of others in daily life, which is then reflected in the language we use to refer to specific groups of people in society.

Question 2

Hegemony

Answer 2

How one social group can use language to get other people to accept its way of seeing the world as natural.

Question 3

Pejorative Term

Answer 3

A judgemental term that usually implies disapproval or criticism.

Question 4

Ideology

Answer 4

A system of ideas.

Question 5

Linguistic Relativity

Answer 5

The idea that the language we use to talk and write about things can determine the way we think and are influenced about/by them.

Question 6

Idiolect

Answer 6

Your own personal way of speaking.

Question 7

Sociolect

Answer 7

The way you speak in specific group / in social situations.

Question 8

Social Construct

Answer 8

An idea that has been created and accepted by the people in a society.

Question 9

Stereotypical Language

Answer 9

The language used to make preconceived judgements or assumptions about a person or group of people.

Question 10

Gender Representation

Answer 10

Refers to how images of men and women are constructed and portrayed in texts.

Question 11

Lens of Context

Answer 11

Exploring representations through a particular context.

Question 12

The Deficit Model

Answer 12

Men and Women speak differently with men’s speech as the ‘norm’ and women’s speech viewed as ‘submissive’ and ‘weaker’

Question 13

Ethnographic Research

Answer 13

The systematic study of groups of people and cultures carried out by close observation.

Question 14

What is a negative of Ethnographic Research

Answer 14

Doesn’t account for the full demographics, not detailed data and anecdotal.

Question 15

Folk Linguistics

Answer 15

The opinions and beliefs that non-linguists hold about language.

Question 16

Sociolinguistics

Answer 16

the study of language in relation to social factors, including differences of regional, class, and occupational dialect, gender differences, and bilingualism. All aspects of society.

Question 17

Interactional Sociolinguistics

Answer 17

Focus on the language in its social context (ethnographic).

Question 18

Variational Sociolinguists

Answer 18

The study in the way language changed in communities of speakers and the interaction between social factors and linguistic features.

Question 19

Dialectology

Answer 19

The study of accents and dialects.

Question 20

Corpora

Answer 20

A large collection of data usually stored electronically.

Question 21

Hypercorrection

Answer 21

A pronunciation, word form or grammatical construction mistakenly perceived to be standard usage and substituted in a desire to be correct.

Question 22

Over Prestige

Answer 22

Status gained by speakers from using a particular dialect or language.

Question 23

Dominance Approach

Answer 23

Men use language as a means to reinforce and maintain their power in conversations and women assert their lack of power through their language choices.

Question 24

Gender Paradox

Answer 24

The phenomenon that women use more prestigious standard forms of English than men but that they also lead language change by adopting new forms of everyday English.

Question 25

Standard English

Answer 25

A dialect of English considered ‘correct’ and ‘normal’ because it has distinctive and standardised features of spelling, vocabulary and syntax; it is the form of English usually used in formal writing.